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* Don't fully restart the game to test out changes! In 95% of cases its enough to just leave the game world and rejoin or use ingame reload commands. You can quickly reload a world using the shortcut <code>CTRL+F1</code>
* Don't fully restart the game to test out changes! In 95% of cases its enough to just leave the game world and rejoin or use ingame reload commands. You can quickly reload a world using the shortcut <code>CTRL+F1</code>
* Don't restart/rejoin at all if you are doing trial&error on textures and shape files. These can be reloaded with the commands <code>.reload textures</code> and <code>.reload shapes</code>. The latter may require you to place&remove a block so that the chunk gets redrawn
* Don't restart/rejoin at all if you are doing trial&error on textures and shape files. These can be reloaded with the commands <code>.reload textures</code> and <code>.reload shapes</code>. The latter may require you to place&remove a block so that the chunk gets redrawn
* Translation entries can be reloaded with <code>.reload lang</code>, the handbook can be reloaded with <code>.reloadhandbook</code>
* Set up a quickstart.bat script, that contains e.g. <code>VintageStory.exe -oTestWorld -pcreativebuilding</code> - this will insta-launch you into a super flat creative world named "TestWorld"
* Set up a quickstart.bat script, that contains e.g. <code>VintageStory.exe -oTestWorld -pcreativebuilding</code> - this will insta-launch you into a super flat creative world named "TestWorld"
* Leave your mod unpacked in the mods folder! No need to zip it up, it'll load up just fine unpacked :-)
* Leave your mod unpacked in the mods folder! No need to zip it up, it'll load up just fine unpacked :-)
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